Abraham Lincoln

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President Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809

He moved to Indiana in 1816 and lived there the rest of his youth. Lincoln himself stated that he had about one year of formal education. However, he was taught by many different individuals.He loved to read and learn from any books he could get his hands on.

CHILDHOOD & EDUCATION

Father: Thomas Lincoln - farmer and carpenterMother: Nancy Hanks - died when Lincoln was nine. His stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston, was very close to him.Siblings: Sarah Grigsby was the only sibling to live to maturity.Wife: Mary Todd - grew up in relative wealth. Four of her siblings fought for the South. She was considered mentally unbalanced.Children: Robert Todd - lawyer and diplomat; William Wallace - the only president's child to die in the White House, and Thomas "Tad" - died at 18.

FAMILY TIES

Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was from Lexington, Kentucky. She was one of the best-educated women of her era, and her support, encouragement, and vast political knowledge helped Lincoln become our nation's sixteenth president. The Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington is open for tours. *

Artist's rendering of the Lincoln family.

Lincoln began his political career in 1832 at age 23 with an unsuccessful campaign for the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party.

EARLY LIFE & CAREER

GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT

Into the Presidency

• Lincoln’s basic position on racial equality changed little between the debates in 1858 and his accession to the presidency in 1861. • He increasingly aligned his view with that

which he attributed to the founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence, yet he consistently distinguished economic rights from political and social rights.

Into the Presidency

• The Civil War caused Lincoln to gently began distancing himself from his earlier disavowals of racial equality. • For the first two years of the war, he made it clear that the goal was the preservation of the Union, not the eradication of slavery. • As the war proceeded, that goal allowed him to justify more radical measures. The Union would be helped if slaves in the rebel states could defect to the Union side.

Into the Presidency

• In 1864 he wrote a letter to Albert Hodges, in which he stated, “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me any unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.”• Lincoln’s own beliefs were not deemed sufficient to justify his attacks on slavery; only military necessity could do that.

1860 Presidential election

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States.

He was the first Republican president, winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North:

1862 Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln met with his cabinet on July 22, 1862 for the first reading of a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation

1863The Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address The cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863 . Lincoln spoke for approximately two minutes. Although he expressed disappointment in the speech initially, it has come to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in U.S. history.

1864 Presidential election

Lincoln won by more than 400,000 popular votes, partly as a result of the recent Union victory at the Battle of Atlanta and was the first president to be re-elected.

1865ASSASSINATION

On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Reward poster following Lincoln’s assassination

When Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865, he was carrying two pairs of spectacles and a lens polisher, a pocketknife, a watch fob, a linen handkerchief, and a brown leather wallet containing a five-dollar Confederate note and nine newspaper clippings.

Train engine that drew Lincoln’s funeral train

Lincoln's coffin, Museum of Funeral Customs

Lincoln's tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery

Lincoln Memorial University is a private four-year co-educational liberal arts college located in

Harrogat, Tennessee

President Lincoln’s memory has been honored in a variety of ways

Inside the Lincoln Memorial, a majestic statue sits in repose with the following words inscribed . . .

In This Temple As in The Hearts Of The People For Whom He saved The Union The Memory Of Abraham

Lincoln Is Enshrined Forever

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